An earthquake model with interacting asperities

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 182, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1339-1373

  Johnson, Lane R ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake dynamics; Fractures and faults; Seismicity and tectonics

Indexed keywords

B VALUE; DYNAMIC EFFECTS; DYNAMIC FAILURES; EARTHQUAKE DYNAMICS; EARTHQUAKE MODELS; FAULT PLANES; GREEN FUNCTION; MATHEMATICAL DESCRIPTIONS; PROBABILITY ESTIMATE; QUASI-STATIC; RATE FUNCTIONS; SCALING RELATIONSHIPS; SECOND ORDER MOMENT; SEISMIC ACTIVITY; SEISMIC EVENT; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMICITY AND TECTONICS; SLIDING FRICTION; SLIP PULSE; STATE OF STRESS; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS; US GOVERNMENT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACKS; EARTHQUAKES; ELASTIC WAVES; FREQUENCY BANDS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; TECTONICS; WAVES;

FRACTURE;

ASPERITY; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; ELASTIC WAVE; FAULTING; GREEN FUNCTION; LOW VELOCITY ZONE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMICITY;

EID: 77955737466     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04680.x     Document Type: Article

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